Let us have the courage to bring in change

This sentence of mine has not gone down well with many of the Indian crowd.

“India is a mess because this courage to change is one thing that does not happen in our crowded living and brain-washing and we pride in our resistance in the name of tradition.......for instance: that you have to obey parents, elders, be nice, help others, husband is your god, guest is god etc. Have people become kinder? No and selfishness abounds taking advantage of the kindness around.”

I am as usual being blamed for NOT being a true Indian. That I am trying to sow dissent and spoil the tradition of India and that I am against Indian culture; speaking against my own country.

Well, keep your eyes closed and bumble on.

Let us stay tied to the milling-stone, resist change and hang on to our comfort zones. That is exactly what our parents want.

And if listening to them is the first law, then there is nothing more to be said.

But then I ask why are you asking for jobs, better roads, toilets, internet, better connectivity and all?Let the parents take care of it all.

And when you will also be a parent and on your own, you will realise, that you did not take up cudgels when you should have and then in all probability you will hide your indolence behind tradition and keep on.

But still, shall we not consider what other possibilities we have? Being aware is no crime. Helping others, ourselves and the country by constructive change is what we want but then we cannot do this without some dissent, by taking in the new parameters in life and make the change we are so volubly asking for.

Yet why do I feel I am asking for too much in a country where original thinking is decried and effort is put in staying back stuck than the other way round.

This half-baked awareness that has now emerged in the literate world of branded packaged goods and self-indulgent philosophy through digitliization has created self-sufficient ego-beings that are afraid of nothing, assuming themselves to be full of power and can think of God only to be as an extension THEIR WISHES.

It is another matter, that realists see them as physically sickly, emotionally unstable and mentally deficient. They neither understand others nor is it possible to communicate easily with them.

Their entire strength seems to be in operating and thinking/acting through digital devices.